"Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it's National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it's National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it's counter-intelligence."

-- Robert Anton Wilson

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“I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.”

Source : "Johnny Cash: 'I was evil. I really was' - a classic interview from the vaults". Interview with Philip Norman, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2012.
“If you've been to China, you know there are over 100 cities in China, and the pollution levels are just horrific - 60,000 people a year die in Chinese factories and facilities, because they don't have any safety regulations. It's a carnage; it's Dickensian.”
“All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.”
“I believe that the telephone and telegraph and other such conveniences were permitted by the Lord to be developed for the express purpose of building the kingdom. Others may use them for business, professional or other purposes, but basically they are to build the kingdom.”
“It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.”

Source : "Pussy Riot punk band remains defiant of Putin's Russia". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. March 24, 2013.
“In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.”
“Long gone is the time when we [blacks] opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt the new black stereotype above all and demand conformity to that norm.... [However], I assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as though I was an intellectual slave because I'm black.”

Source : Clarence Thomas' Speech to the National Bar Association in Memphis, Tennessee, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 28, 1998.
“I would like to outlaw contraception... contraception is disgusting - people using each other for pleasure.”

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